St. Bonaventure used a 15-1 run spanning the end of the first half and beginning of the second half to break open the game en route to defeating the Canisius College women's basketball team 74-58 in the Koessler Athletic Center on Monday night.

Sophomore Jamie Ruttle led Canisius with 17 points. Junior Ashley Wilkes had 13 points, a team-high seven rebounds and three blocks in 24 minutes off the bench. Sophomore Jen Morabito made all four of her shot attempts - all 3-pointers - as Canisius shot 7-for-15 from behind the arc on the evening.

"St. Bonaventure is a veteran team who takes advantage of when a team isn't playing well during a stretch of the game. I could see our team struggling late in the first half but couldn't find a way to stop it," Canisius coach Terry Zeh said. "When our offense flowed, I thought we created good scoring opportunities. When it got stagnant, we rushed things and made bad decisions."

Canisius turned a 7-3 deficit into a 15-11 lead when the Griffs made five of eight shots, capped by a layup from sophomore Jen Lennox, to take the four-point lead just over five minutes into the game. The Bonnies then held Canisius to one field goal during the next eight minutes, going up 23-17 on a 3-pointer from Jessica Jenkins. Canisius battled back with an 8-2 run, getting the third 3-pointer of the half from Morabito, a layup from Wilkes and a jumper form Lennox, to tie the game at 25-25 with 3:48 left in the half.

St. Bonaventure (2-0) then held Canisius without a field goal for the next five minutes as the Bonnies went on the 15-1 run to break the game open. That run included the Bonnies making five of seven shots, capped by another 3-pointer from Jenkins, to go up 40-26.

Canisius could never cut the lead to single digits the rest of the way. The Bonnies extended their lead to as many as 21 points - 63-42 - after a 3-pointer from Chelsea Bowker, one of four 3-pointers in the game for Bowker.

Four Bonnies reached double figures, led by 18 points from Megan Van Tatenhove. Bowker had 15 points while Jenkins had 14 points and CeCe Dixon added 12 points. The Bonnies shot 50 percent from the floor, including 9-for-9 from behind the arc.

Canisius plays its first road game of the season on Saturday, when the Golden Griffins face Towson. Game time is set for 2 p.m.

Notes: Canisius falls to St. Bonaventure for the sixth consecutive meeting... The Griffs drop their season opener, and their home opener, for the third straight year... Morabito made multiple 3-pointers in a game for the 14^th time in her career and for the fourth time in the last six games... Freshmen Kayla Hoohuli (23 minutes) and Brooke Angelos (nine minutes) each came off the bench for the Griffs in their collegiate debut... Junior Allison Braun set a career-high with four assists, all coming in the first eight minutes of the game... The six assists for junior Ashley Durham were one off her career high of seven set against Binghamton on Nov. 16, 2010... Ruttle scored at least eight points for the 17^th time in the last 22 games and is now 28-for-33 from the free-throw line in the last eight games... Canisius had 16 assists and 15 turnovers on the night. The Griffs had more assists than turnovers in seven games last season.